On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, at 12:58 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > Perfectly put Helen! > Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my > idea of utopia. """Marly studied the quotations. Pollock was down again. This, she supposed, was the aspect of art that she had the most difficulty understanding. Picard, if that was the man's name, was speaking with a broker in New York, arranging the purchase of a certain number of "points" of the work of a particular artist. A "point" might be defined in any number of ways, depending on the medium involved, but it was almost certain that Picard would never see the works he was purchasing. If the artist enjoyed sufficient status, the originals were very likely crated away in some vault, where no one saw them at all. Days or years later, Picard might pick up that same phone and order the broker to sell. """ - William Gibson, "Count Zero", 1986.
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